Emiliano Martinez and Emiliano Buendia are both travelling with the Argentina national team but would only be available for two of the three matches.

Martinez had already tweeted out that he is travelling to be with the Argentina team but there was nothing regarding Buendia. Aston Villa have released a statement saying that both players are travelling for the September matches with the club’s permission.

However, both players would only be available for the first two World Cup qualifying matches. That means that they would be able to play against Venezuela and Brazil but would not be available for the third match against Bolivia.

Aston Villa can confirm Emi Martínez and Emi Buendía have travelled to join up with the Argentina squad with the permission of the club in accordance with FIFA’s international match call-up rules.

— Aston Villa (@AVFCOfficial) August 29, 2021

For Argentina, that means 19 of the 30 players called-up to the squad are available.

Emiliano Martinez
Franco Armani
Geronimo Rulli
Lisandro Martinez
Gonzalo Montiel
German Pezzella
Juan Foyth
Marcos Acuna
Nicolas Tagliafico
Rodrigo De Paul
Guido Rodriguez
Exequiel Palacios
Leandro Paredes
Alejandro Papu Gomez
Emiliano Buendia
Angel Correa
Angel Di Maria
Julian Alvarez
Lionel Messi

La Liga must release their players for the South American World Cup qualifiers in September.

While the Premier League, La Liga, Serie A and the Portuguese league decided to not release their players, one of them will be forced to. A decision has been made by the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) which has ruled in favor of FIFA, meaning that the players must be released.

As we reported on Saturday, Emiliano Martinez has confirmed that he will be travelling to Argentina. In addition to him, we now know that the Argentine players in La Liga will also be joining the team. There are nine Argentine players in La Liga, seven of which won the Copa America. The following players are in La Liga:

Geronimo Rulli
Gonzalo Montiel
German Pezzella
Juan Foyth
Marcos Acuna
Rodrigo De Paul
Guido Rodriguez
Alejandro Papu Gomez
Angel Correa

This means that 17 of the 30 plaers called up by Lionel Scaloni are available:

The following players are available:

Franco Armani
Lisandro Martinez
Geronimo Rulli
Gonzalo Montiel
German Pezzella
Juan Foyth
Marcos Acuna
Rodrigo De Paul
Guido Rodriguez
Alejandro Papu Gomez
Angel Correa
Nicolas Tagliafico
Exequiel Palacios
Leandro Paredes
Angel Di Maria
Julian Alvarez
Lionel Messi

FIFA welcomes CAS decision on qualifying matches for the FIFA World Cup: https://t.co/OuHuSp648d

— FIFA Media (@fifamedia) August 29, 2021

Emiliano Martinez has stated that he will be playing for Argentina, despite the restriction put in place by the Premier League.

As has been reported, the Premier League, along with La Liga, Serie A and the Portuguese league are restricting players from travelling with their national teams for September’s World Cup qualifiers. There have been rumors that the Argentine players in the Premier League, that ia to say Emiliano Martinez, Emiliano Buendia, Cristian Romero and Gio Lo Celso, will travel and take part in the matches.

Martinez took to his social media pages following Aston Villa’s 1-1 draw and mentioned that he will be with the Argentina team. Martinez tweeted and wrote on his Instagram the following:

A hard fought point this afternoon.

Now on to 🇦🇷

A hard fought point this afternoon.

Now on to 🇦🇷

Punto muy disputado hoy!

Próxima parada 🇦🇷 pic.twitter.com/B2pwSudPM9

— Emi Martínez (@emimartinezz1) August 28, 2021